A boring mid-forties guy who was born and has lived his whole life on the #IsleOfWight, but dreams of one day going somewhere else.
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Rocky Hetherington
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Gonzalo Nemmi 
Reminder: You better hurry!
@monocles and #Conversations_im are available for free on your Android device since Dec 24th and until the 31st on Google Play!
Get your friends and family and don’t miss out on the opportunity to install and onboard them in one (or both) of the most featureful #XMPP clients on Android!
Set them free from invasive, data harvesting, centralized IM communications networks!
#RunJBR #Privacy #Security #Decentralization #PrivacyIsAHumanRight #DigitalSovereignty #Jabber
Daniel GultschI’m happy to announce the 12th annual Holiday season Conversations giveaway. 🎄☃️
The federated instant messaging client is now available for free on Google Play until New Year’s Eve. 🧨🎆
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays. Enjoy #39C3.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.siacs.conversations
#XMPP #Jabber #Conversations_im #DigitalSovereignty #Fediverse
As a community, we often ask ourselves how to attract more users to #XMPP. Yet the real tragedy is that people would rather build something entirely new (loosely based on email or #ActivityPub) than consider XMPP. Need end-to-end encryption by default? If compatibility with existing XMPP clients is a secondary concern, you can implement it in your own solution while still benefiting from our two decades of experience in instant messaging.
Looks like #Ghost has released version 6.0 earlier today, now with #ActivityPub support.
I've been using Ghost in a container for my blog for several years now, so will definitely be looking to upgrade sometime soon.
Jonathan PerkinNice optimisation now available for anyone using my macOS binary packages from https://pkgsrc.smartos.org
Packages that require fortran support now only depend on the smaller gcc-libs package (7MB) rather than the full gcc package (300MB).
Once you've "pkgin upgrade"ed, remember to "pkgin autoremove" to clean up the now-unused gcc package.
This brings it in line with the SmartOS package sets.
Continuing to push back against bloat one step at a time. Next up, ghc.
There are a couple of new #SSH exploits out there, so get to patching!
This is bad timing as just yesterday i moved the DNS for the domain i use for my infrastructure to a provider supporting DNSSEC, added the SSHFP records for my servers and enabled VerifyHostKeyDNS on my clients.
Or maybe it's good timing since the bug has apparently existed for a decade and will be patched within a few days of me enabling the feature. I'm off to buy a lottery ticket! 😁
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/02/18/openssh_vulnerabilities_mitm_dos/
I wrote a blog post. This time it’s about setting up #NixOS with #ZFS on a tiny Lenovo M910q PC to be used as a #Incus #container and #vm host.
h/t to @simon for posting about the great prices these machines were going for a few weeks ago.
https://blog.hetherington.uk/2025/01/setting-up-incus-with-zfs-on-nixos/
#Easter chocolate is already hitting the shops.
On one hand i think this is ridiculously early; on the other i really do enjoy a good Cadbury Creme Egg.
I wrote a blog post on setting up #Prosody #XMPP server on #Debian 12, Bookworm.
Most people should probably just stick with #Snikket, but for those who would prefer to go the manual setup route hopefully this will be of interest or help.
https://blog.hetherington.uk/2024/12/setting-up-xmpp-prosody-on-debian-bookworm/
